Time-out Philosopher Pillows

'Time-outs might have more meaning when I learn to tell time.'

"Mom wasn't impressed with my suggestion that we 'agree to disagree'."

"Trust me kiddo, even donkey's years fly by way too fast..."

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

"He's declared it an area of natural beauty"

"Do you think the birds like me?"

"Tracks of black bear cub... Tracks of black bear mother... Tracks of Henry David Thoreau."

"According to my phone, society is on the brink of collapse, but, according to our living room, things seem pretty O.K."

"Honey, wake up. I had that dream again where I wake up and you get angry at me for waking you up."

"Someday, son, a giant conglomerate will find a way to harness the moonlight and make us pay for it."

'By George, this one I think I'm going to like!'

Children's games and technology

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock."

'Water cooler's really busy this time of day,'

The Farmer Sutra.

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!!"

Childhood Screen Addict

'I try to avoid the trap of letting my idleness define me.'

"I love the way it blurs the boundary between inside and out."

"Sorry for the wait - I hope it wasn't too long."

'I became a bit claustrophobic living in a warren all the time: I prefer camping out now...'

'I suppose you're wondering why you're not on it!'

The End is Relative

Trust your instinct...listen to that little haunting voice that gives you subtle messages...'call in sick.'

Thoughts of Stephen Harper...

"As always he found a way to duck out of working overtime!"

"You seem very remote."

"Sometimes I wish they'd never perfected setless television."

"See, Timmy? No boogeymen under your bed — they're all out there."

"Would it have killed you to shave first?"

"All the poetry I have inside me is being eaten by my vampire phone."

"Since you retired, you've gone to pieces!"

No crawling sign in the desert.

Caution - Poet at work

"If I ever feel that life's moving too fast, I just stand in the prescriptions queue..."